beef cattle farm worker
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Must-have:PrincipalRemote
Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work site environment:
- Beef cattle ranching and farming, including feedlots.
- Outdoors.
- Dusty.
- Hot.
- Noisy.
- Odours.
- Wet/damp.
- Livestock.
- All weather conditions.
- Dirty.
Work setting:
- Rural area.
- Staff accommodation available.
- Remote location.
Tasks:
- Handling animals.
- Monitor the calving process.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Perform livestock feeding.
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving.
- Treat livestock health issues.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Milk cows.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Perform general farm duties.
Equipment and machinery experience:
- Tractor.
- Farm truck.
Transportation/travel information:
Valid driver's licence.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Attention to detail.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Sitting.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
Employment terms options:
Early morning.
Experience:
7 months to less than 1 year.
Employment terms options:
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.